to live in a place like this.
I try to be gentle to the environment but I would not want my neighbors for lack of a better term,up my ass like it would be here.

What are your thoughts on this type of living?

http://www.libertyvillage.com/index.html
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I have two different friends who did the build-from-scratch co-housing thing. For one, it wasn't a good fit and they left about 4 years ago. For the other, it has been their dream eden.

It has its pluses and minuses just like anything else.
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Yeah, I really don't like people that much. :-)
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Not for me.
I won't buy a home with HOAs let alone this setup. I don't want some strangers making decisions on what I can or cannot do to a home that I own.
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I would be a great people person if I actually "liked" people. Chances are there would be a Rumble in Brighton when the "co-residents" came after me with pitchforks, a bucket of tar, and a sack of feathers.
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Well I bought a home with HOA's and that's enough for me!!!!

Bad enough I can't do anything in my front yard but don't tell me when to cook dinner!!!!
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No $hit.

And what do you say when they hand you kool-aid?

I'm all for a green environment but wow.
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1 home with a HOA was one to many f'n bunch of arseholes for me, sold it and moved in 2 years and just the term HOA pisses me off. Life is best in a shack in the middle of 100+ acres surrounded by fences and trees outside of any kind of zoning area......:-):-):-)
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I'd probably be about as OK as I was were we used to live. When I started making charcoal, burning downed trees, smoking meat every weekend, and shooting a rifle it all went downhill pretty quickly!!
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Smoking would be Verboten.
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Today...KISS Dinner (6:30 pm - 7:30 pm)

Maybe this place is cooler than it seems?

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Peter,
It is awful.
Not very many homes one can buy in South Florida without HOA's.
Nazis I tell you!!!
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Today, I looked up the covenants of the HOA for the house I just bought. This one just baffled me:

"Frequent barking or howling of dogs or annoying behavior of pets to homeowners, can result in the pets being impounded by Animal Control."

Sorry, but if I have my dogs kept in my fenced back yard at all times and animal thinks they're going to step on my property and impound my dogs, the HOA and animal control has another thing coming.

Personally, I like the protection of not living next to Jethro and having his '78 Camaro on blocks in the driveway or that annoying car parked on the street every freaking day.
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Give it 6 months, I would take Jethro living in a motorhome on blocks over any a-hole I ever met that was active in a HOA.
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I've been in a HOA for 7+ years now and like I said, it's not great, but I'd rather deal with the HOA than a redneck neighbor operating a car repair shop out of his garage.
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To each his own brother... and I know what you are saying. However, I would rather live next door to Jethro who was working than some tight arse who was more concerned with the color of my mailbox.
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I am that redneck neighbor without the running the garage part. I live in the center of 50 acres so nobody much cares if I piss off the porch and shoot big guns in the evening. Don't think I could stand people telling me what I could park in the yard or how many cars, tractors, trucks, jeeps, campers, dogs, cattle, hogs, you get the point.
Back to the rolling rock and oliva.
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Just wait'll they tell you not to chuck your plugged cigars in the lake anymore!! :-)
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Or roast a pig in your driveway. :-)

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Yeah. Ask Klugs how that works out. :-)
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